White Chocolate Pudding That'll Wow Your Guests

Name: White Chocolate Pudding
Prep time: 20 min
Total time: 200 min
Ingredients: 1 ¾ tbsp Cornstarch; 1 ¼ Cups Whole milk; ½ Cup White chocolate (high quality); 1 ¼ tbsp Sugar; ½ Cup Heavy cream

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If you're looking for a last course that will really wow your dinner guests, check out this incredible white chocolate pudding! This simple recipe can be whipped together with just five ingredients, but it will taste like you spent all day preparing it!

Gorgeous green bowl on white wooden board filled with delicious white chocolate pudding.

If you're looking for a rich, creamy white pudding that also doubles as an unforgettable dip for fruits and cookies, this recipe is the perfect thing for you!

🥘 Ingredients

White Chocolate Couverture (high quality)
Whole Milk
Sugar
Cornstarch
Heavy Cream

See the recipe card for quantities.

🔪 Instructions

The first thing you'll want to do is mix your cornstarch with a tablespoon of milk — and make sure you don't have any clumps!

Mix the cornstarch with the tablespoon of milk until there are no more lumps.

Next, combine the white chocolate couverture, milk, and sugar in a medium saucepan, and bring them to a gentle boil over medium heat. In order to get the right white chocolate flavor for this recipe, it's really important you use high-quality white chocolate.

Once the pudding mixture is starting to boil, add in the mixed cornstarch, stirring constantly with a whisk, and bring it back to a boil.

Add the sugar to the chocolate chips with milk.

Once the pan begins to boil again, remove it from the heat and pour your hot pudding into a bowl with a lid.

It'll need at least three hours in the fridge to cool, but personally, I like letting my pudding sit in the fridge overnight, so if it's possible, try making this the night before.

After you've waited at least three hours for your pudding to chill, though, you can start whipping the whipped cream with an electric hand mixer until stiff.

You'll know you have the right consistency once you start seeing stiff peaks form in the cream. Combine your cold chocolate cornstarch pudding with the freshly-whipped whipped cream.

You can add your pudding into a pastry bag with a star tip and pipe the cream into the serving bowls — or dipping bowls if you're planning to put out snacks for your guests. It won't make the pudding taste any different, but it's a great way to give the pudding a beautiful shape.

If you're preparing this as a dip, another nice little finishing touch I like to make is decorating with small pieces of cookies, chocolate sprinkles, and fruit. The white chocolate flavor isn't overpowering, and the creamy texture is a nice compliment to so many other dessert dishes.

🍪 Variations

This recipe can also be made with milk chocolate or dark chocolate! My family served all three versions as dips at Christmas with homemade sugar cookies. It was absolutely delicious and a huge hit among our guests!

🍽 Equipment

Small or medium-sized Saucepan
Whisk
Small Bowl
Large Bowl (with lid)
Electric Hand Mixer
Piping Bag with Star Tip
Glass Bowls or Small Dipping Bowls

🌡 Storage & Tips

This white chocolate cornstarch pudding will last up to three days when refrigerated! Just make sure you properly store it in an airtight container!

Once you bring all your ingredients together over a boil, this white chocolate pudding will only need to chill for three hours (any less, and you'll have more of a white chocolate soup!), but I highly recommend making this ahead of time the night before!

This delicious pudding can be prepped in as little as 20 minutes, but speaking from personal experience, bringing everything together for a party feels so much easier when you don't feel like you're under a time crunch.

🙋🏻 FAQ

What does corn starch do in pudding?

If you're making homemade pudding that isn't coming out of the Jell-O Chocolate Pudding box, the cornstarch is what's going to help thicken your pudding and give it the right consistency.

Can I use cornstarch instead of flour for pudding?

This recipe calls for cornstarch, but if you need to substitute flour instead, you'd use a 2:1 ratio; two tablespoons of flour for every one tablespoon of cornstarch.

Will cornstarch pudding thicken as it cools?

Your homemade cornstarch pudding will begin to thicken up while you're cooking it over medium-low heat, and will finish properly setting after allowing it enough time in the fridge. If your white chocolate pudding is looking more like chocolate soup, though, you need to spend some more time cooking and stirring it over your stove top before chilling it in the fridge.

How do you thicken pudding with cornstarch?

In order to prevent clumping, you'll want to mix in your cornstarch with a tablespoon of milk before adding it into your mixture! The cornstarch is what will help thicken up your pudding and give you the consistency you need before popping into the fridge to cool!

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